Ramadan: To those who believe in Imam Mahdi (af)?

Bismisllahhirahmannir-Rahim. Assalamu'alaikum Warahmatullahhi Wabarakatuh. L am a "Sunni".

The specific meaning given to the word "IMAM" in Shi'ism can not be understood until one grasps the basic difference between the SUNNI and SHI'ITE branch of Islam. The roots of this difference are to be found in the differing views held by the companions of the Prophet concerning the nature of his successor or calips. The difference in view between the Shi'ites and Sunnis was often expressed in political terms, resulting in a good deal of strife in the early centuries of Islam between certain Shi'ites groups and the Umayyad and Abbasid calips.

For, as far as the Shi'ite were concerned, the Imam were only completely legitimate successors to the Prophet. According to the "Shi'ites":- The Twelfth Imam, MUHAMMAD, known as "al-Mahdi" (b. 256/868).

The twelfth Imam lived in hiding under the protection and tutelage of his father until the latter's death. Then he went into "OCCULTATION'. In other words, he became hidden from the eyes of ordinary men and appeared only to his Deputies.

In the year 329/939 his "greater occultation" began. It will continue as GOD wills, but when he does appear once again, he will erase evil and injustice from the world. Wabillahhitaufiq Walhidayah Wassalamu'alaikum Warahmatullahhi Wabarakatuh.

Ah. I tried to look up if this was authenticated. I have no idea; but I found this.

Narrated by Abu Hurayrah: "'The war of the end of time is the war of the world. There will be a third war after two great wars in which many are killed. He who will light the fires of the second world war will be known as the 'Great Leader'.

1300 years after the Hijra, count a few decades (1880s). At that time, the Greek King wants to wage a war against the entire world. Meanwhile, Allah commands the war for that man.

A short while later, that is, in two decades, a man whose name is associated with a cat name from the German lands (Hitler?), appears as a scourge on the Romans. He starts to bother people and wants to hold control over the world. He wages war against the entire world, both the warm and cold lands.

After years filled with severe war fires, he meets Allah's punishment. Then, he is killed as the Russian's mystery. Count five or six or seven or eight decades after 1300 of Hijra (1930-40-50- 60).

At that time, a man called "Nasser" rules Egypt. Arabs call him "succa-ul Arab", the "brave of the Arabs." Allah despises him twice, once in a war, and then in another one.

That "Nasser" can never attain victory. Upon this, Allah, the Lord of the House, makes a dark-colored person (Sadat?), whose father is more enlightened than himself, the leader of the Egyptian people and the Arab nation. But, he makes an agreement with the thieves of the Masjid al-Aqsa.

Then a cruel man appears in Iraq, which is located in the Damascus region. This man, with a slight injury in his eye, is a Sufyaani. His name comes from confrontation (Saddam?), and he is confrontational against his opponents.

All the world gathers for him in small Kut, the region to which he came previously because he was deceived. There is no good in that Sufyaani except with Islam and he is both good and bad.....and woe to he who betrays the trustworthy Mahdi. Count two or three decades after the year/decade of Hijri 1400 (1999, 2008).

At that time, the Mahdi emerges. He fights the whole world and both the ones who have gone astray (Christians) and the ones who have earned Allah's anger (Jews) join against him with the hypocrites in the land of Isra and Miraj at Mount Megiddo. And there comes out against him the Queen of the world and deception, an adulteress called (America!), who incites the world to deviation and infidelity.. .

And the Jews of the world at that time would have the upper hand , ruling Quds and the holy city. And all nations come to fight by sea and air except those in the land of extreme cold and the land of extreme heat. And the Mahdi sees that all the world does plot against him, but he also sees that Allah's plan is stronger than all, and he sees that the World belongs to Allah and to Him it will return, and that the World is but a tree that Allah wills him to rule from its roots to its branches... and Allah throws down on them (unbelievers) with a disastrous punishment, burning their lands and seas and skies.

And the sky rains down a harmful shower, with the people of the Earth cursing the infidels, and Allah wills the defeat of the unbelievers. " (Asmal Masalik Lieyyam Mahdiyy Maliki Li Kull-id Dunya Biemrillah-il Malik ("The Best ways to know the time of the Mahdi, King of the World, by Allah's command"), Qalda bin Zayd, p. 216) --- Idk if it's true.

& only Allah (SWT) knows. But I think taking all these signs in .. IT WILL COME VERY SOON. This decade - or the next will probably decide ): I wish you the best brothers&sisters.

:/ and I worry for the next generation.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.